[6186] in RedHat Linux List
Re: su and passwd
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Miguel Avillez)
Tue Nov 26 09:44:14 1996
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 14:20:45 +0000 (WET)
From: Miguel Avillez <pancho@astro1.ce.uevora.pt>
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In-Reply-To: <9611260838.ZM10670@platypus>
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hi
you have to change the permissions of the /bin/su to suid bit...
type:
ls -al /bin/su
if you get
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 22176 Oct 15 20:50 su*
change it with
chmod u+s /bin/su
ls -al /bin/su
and you get
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 22176 Oct 15 20:50 su*
that solves you the problem. Or at least solves the su problem
hope this helps
miguel
On Tue, 26 Nov 1996, Jason Benderly wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> Glad to see the list is OK.
>
> 2 questions:
>
> 1. When I do a su from a user account to root, I get the output "cannot set
> groups".
> What does this mean? I do not get this on my SunOS box. I read the man page
> on
> su and it says nothing about this.
>
> 2. As a user account, when I type passwd, I get the output "permission
> denied". Passwd
> has execute permission for everybody. Wassup wit dat?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jason
>
> P.S. To all the guys pissed off at Linux and RedHat support, just be patient
> and persistant..
> You will solve your problems, and learn a ton doing it. It is what Computer
> Science is all about!!!
>
>
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